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What are Rituals?
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Places to Worship
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What is Religion?
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The fear or awe one feels in the presence or spirit of God.
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What are the 3 phases of Frazer?
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1.Nature Worship
2.Religion 3.Science |
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Who is Paul Tillich and What does he believe?
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Religion is the ultimate concern for the ultimate.
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Who is William James?
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Believed in an unseen order and our supreme good lies in the balance with that unseen order.
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Who is Max Muller?
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Religion began as nature worship.
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Who is Wilhelm Schmidt?
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Monotheism was first form of religion.
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Ludwig Freuerbach?
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Religion is a projection of human needs and wishes. Religion was replaced with technology and science.
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Karl Marx?
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Religion is the opiate of the people.
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Emile Durkheim?
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Religion conforms society. Wrote "Elementary forms of religious life"
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Rudolf Otto
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Wrote "The Idea of the Holy"
Coined the word "Numinious" |
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What is Anthromorphism?
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Take a diety to a human being.
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Zoomorphism
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Take a diety and turn it into an animal.
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What is the worlds oldest religion?
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Bear ceremonies.
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What is the worlds oldest art form?
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Cave Paintings
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What is religion based on?
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Fertility
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What did the Neolithic people pass on?
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Fertility, Mass Burials, Stone Hinge
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What is Deism?
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God created the world so if could run itself.
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Venus of Willendorff
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Goddess of Worship, Gave Life and Fertility
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What is most important to the Yoruba?
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Meditation
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When Olorun's son, Obitawa, messed up who finished?
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Oduduwa
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Where do the Yoruba live?
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West Nigeria
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Who is Olorun?
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Owner of the Sky. Creator, transcendant, and determines the destiny.
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Who is Orisha?
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400 in number.
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How are the Orisha honored?
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Many shrines, Groves and Temples
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Describe Shango Picture
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Controls Weather, Axe, Lightening/Dark
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Describe River Goddess Picture
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Controls Weather; Blue and White Wedding looking dress w/vail.
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Oshun
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Blesses w/Wealth; Yellow Dress, Yellow Bed of Flowers
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Oya
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Arisha in Destiny; Storm Clouds/Tornado; Red dress; Line of Fire
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What did Obatala create his first people out of?
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Clay. Due to too much palm white, he created misshaped people (color is white).
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Who is Obatala usually worshiped by?
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Women, Especially Barren women.
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How do most feel about Oduduwa?
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He was a deified ancestor who helped finish creation.
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Where was Oduduwa's shrine?
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Ife (Sacred place in center of city)
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Who are the 3 Primordial dieties?
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Obatala, Oduduwa, Ogun
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Who was Ogun?
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First King of Ife, and the God of Metal and Remover of Obstacles.
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What does Ogun look like?
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Black, big eyes, has a sword and grass skirt on.
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What did Ogun do?
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Cleared the way for the Gods.
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Who was Orunmila?
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God of destiny and divination.
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Who was Esu?
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"Trickster" God
Kind of like "Genie in a Bottle" |
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Who were the Yorba?
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Perfect People
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Who were the Igbo?
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Misshappned people.
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What is Aninism?
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No seperation of body and soul.
People were the same as animals Spirits are in everything. |
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Where does all life come out of?
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Africa
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Who are the Zulu?
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People of the Sky
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What is the Zulu's sacred space called?
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Kraal
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Kraal On a Hill picture
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2 circles, inner is cattle, anscestors, and temple.
(tree to the right) |
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What is a Sacred Place?
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Raised Platform that honored ancestors.
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Unsamo
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In Everyones Home (most common)
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Where is the Sacred Place that only the Heaven Herder can go?
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Unoccupied Hills
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What are the 7 Sacred Roles?
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Headman Priest, Diviner, Herbalist, Patient, Heaven Herder, Supplicant, Sorcerer
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What does the Headman Priest do?
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Performs all, chosen by spirits, ancestors, always a man.
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What does the Diviner do?
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Tells the future, always a woman, occasionally a man, doctor like, passes from mother.
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What does the Herbalist do?
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Zulu Medicane (Black, White, Red) Usually a Man
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Patient?
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Sick, Ill, Woman or Man
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Heaven Herder?
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Man, Must be struck by lightening and survive, controls lightening, prays to high God.
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Supplicant?
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Person who was family problems, can be anyone, but they need to get back on path.
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Sorcerer?
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Bad neighbor, people who create evil, male or female
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Isaiah Shembe?
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Heaven Herder, Fights for People Enslaved
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What Church did Isaiah Shembe create?
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Ama Nazarath Church
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What was the Ama Nazarath Church?
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Christianity and the Zulu Tradition
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What are the 3 sources of power?
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1. Ancestors
2.High God=.Inkozi-Nkuluknkulu 3.Medicine=all herbs are power all to themselves. |
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Do ancestors all have power?
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Yes
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Who doesnt have a word in vocabulary for Religion?
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Native Americans; use the word sacred.
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Do the Native Americans have seperation from church and state?
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No
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What are the 3 sacred objects for the Native Americans?
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1.Feathers
2.Corn Pollen 3.Tobacco |
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Is the Native American calendar cyclical or linear?
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Cyclical
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Where was the Peyote found?
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Texas near the Rio Grande.
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Who were the 1st to use it?
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Kiowa and Apache
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Who was Sigmund Freud?
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Taught that Religion was nothing more than feelings of guilt based on the Oedipus Rex theory.
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Who was Herbert Spencer?
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Believed that the concept of God was based on dreams.
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Edward Burnett Tylor?
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Developed theory of animism.
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What is Magic?
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Attempts to influence the action of nature through special practices, dances, rituatls, and incantation.
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Divination?
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Prediction of the future through various magical means. (tarot cards)
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Totems?
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Certain types of animals
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Rite of Passage?
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Any of various rituals that mark the passage from one phase in a persons life to another phase. (marriage, death, baptism)
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Sacrifice?
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Way of pleasin dieties. Viewed as gift to the spirtits in exchange for assistance to human beings.
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What 3 things did the Native Americans believe revitalized life?
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1.Ritual
2.Drama 3.Prayer |
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What is the Native American World view?
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What is real to you, validates what we cannot see.
Your reality, religion validates reality |
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What is the Bow Priest in the Zuni religion?
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He is a Shaman and in charge of war.
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Who is Pekwin?
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Priest of the Sun, Keeper for sacred time.
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Who is the chief of all other priests in the Zuin?
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Pekwin
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Who were the Rain Priests?
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Sixteen per pueblo. Also the diviners and doctors.
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In the Zuni what direction does the Bear stand for?
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West
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Mt. Lion?
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North
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Wolf?
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East
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Badger?
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South
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What are the four animal spirts?
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Wolf, Badger, Bear, Mt. Lion
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Zuni: What are Kivas?
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Ceremonial rooms
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Zuni: What is the Sipapu?
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Hole of emergence.
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Zuni: What are pueblos?
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Houses
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Zuni: What is their Sacred time?
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Cyclical; two halves; summer and winter.
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New Year for the Zuni?
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Jan. 20th
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Who are the Kachinas?
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Bringers of the New Year from the East.
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Zuni: What is the ceremony at the end of novermber?
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Shalako Cermony. (public festival for 14 days)
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Who are the religious specialists for the Shoshoni?
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Shaman and Puhagan.
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What do the Shoshoni consider their Sacred Space?
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All the Earth. Their universe is 3-tiered.
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What is the Shoshonis Sacred Time?
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Cyclical
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When is the Sun Dance held?
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Usually July
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How long do the Shoshoni mourn a death?
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3 days
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What is the Shaman capable of bringing back?
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Your soul.
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What are the two groups of Shoshoni?
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1. The sheepeaters
2. Hang around the fort people |
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Who is the Supreme Being of the Shoshoni?
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Our Father or The Wolf
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What spirit is the Nyipii?
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Wind
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What spirit is the Dzoavits?
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High Mountain Spirit
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What spirit is the Puha?
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Supernatural Power
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Who is Oba?
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King Priest of Ife
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In the Yoruba, what object has sacred spirits?
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Trees
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